Jenkins: Yes, Hospital Pricing Is Insane, But Why?

Time magazine issues a 24,000-word memo on what we already knew.

By

Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.

March 1, 2013 7:21 p.m. ET

Without diminishing the epic scope of Steven Brill's Time magazine piece about the U.S. health care system, he reiterates in lengthy detail perversities that are already well known, without offering a single useful insight on how it go that way, and even less on how to fix it.

Yet Mr. Brill, founder of CourtTV and American Lawyer magazine, author of books on terrorism and education, has written the longest piece in Time's...